Lisa Nguyen
Author
Series
Hoover Institution Press publication volume 690
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam examines the legacy of one of the most popular and eccentric newspapers to cover the Vietnam War. With its mix of hard-hitting military exposés, pinups, and comic strips, Overseas Weekly earned a reputation as a muckraking truth teller. Time magazine called it "the least popular publication at the Pentagon." From 1966 to 1972, the paper's reporters and photographers tackled controversial topics, including...